Description of problem: Playing media with 5.1 surround sound results in only the front left and right channels being audible. I've set totem to Edit > Preferences > Audio > Stereo but when I play media with 5.1 surround sound I can't here what I presume is the center channel, leaving me without any speech (which is usually in the center channel). I've noticed this with DVD's but also noticed it with Elephants Dream which is a downloadable avi with is mixed with 5.1 surround sound. DVD's which only have 2 channel sound (stereo) work as expected. Surely media that is in 5.1 surround sound should be down mixed to stereo so that users with stereo laptops should be able to play the media. I know this bug will probably need to be moved downstream, and possibly to a different package, but I see the problem in totem so I'm starting the process of finding the problem here. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): [rodd@localhost ~]$ rpm -qa totem gst\* gstreamer-0.10.9.2-0.gst.1.5 totem-1.4.1-1 gstreamer-plugins-good-0.10.4-0.gst.1.5 gstreamer-plugins-base-0.10.9.3-0.gst.2.5 gstreamer-plugins-bad-0.10.3-0.gst.3.5 gstreamer-tools-0.10.9.2-0.gst.1.5 gstreamer-plugins-ugly-0.10.4-0.gst.1.5 gstreamer-ffmpeg-0.10.1-2.lvn5
How did you play DVDs with the GStreamer backend? It doesn't support them... If you could point to a test file, I'd appreciate.
I didn't play DVD's with gstreamer-0.10 (although I think gstreamer 0.8 did support DVD playback, which makes me wonder why 0.10 doesn't). You could download files from here: http://orange.blender.org/download I downloaded the smaller (1024) of the AVI, MPEG4 / AC3 5.1 Surround files.
OK. Could you check in the preferences which audio output is selected?
Hmmm, curious. I haven't checked in FC5 (I'm in the middle of some work on FC6 and can't reboot easily at the moment) but it's working fine in FC6. I'm pretty sure I'd tried all the different sound options when running FC5, but I'm using stereo in case that's important. I'm not sure what you'll want to do with this bug now I'm reporting it working in FC6.
If it's working fine in FC6, I'll close this as working now. Thanks for testing.